Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-11
THE BIILOU TRAGEDY.
Further Particulars Regarding the Hor-
rible Affair.

Further Particulars Regarding the Hor-
rible Affair.
Up to a late hour last night Ho All
Heung, the Chinaman who murdered Mrs.
Billou Friday evening, seriously, II not
fatally, shot William Weaver, and at
tempted to kill Annie and Maud Billion, at
J st. John, CoIusa county, was still at large.
When the RECORD UNIONS special repre-
sentative left Chico for home yesterday
morning, fully 800 men were in search OF
the fugitive, armed with shotguns and
rifles. The entire country is aroused, and
it seems impossible that the murderous
Asiatic can long elude their search. In
| two hours after the news reached Chlco OF
this China cooks bloody work, armed men
were closing in from every direction on 81.
John They all first visited the house,
where the horrible sight OF the dead
woman and wounded man, the heart-
rending cries of the motherless children,
the battered doors, the bloody floors, in
censed them to such a degree that they
went in quest of the murderer with curses
upon their lips and q determination to
kill him on sight. He was never seen after
| he left the house. He was tracked to the
river. where he crossed in an old boat to
| the Butte side. Here all trace was lost OF
him.
THERE ARE MANY THEORIES
As to what has become of him. Many are
of the opinion that he made his way to the
| large Chinese camp at Vina, where his
countrymen have secreted him. others
scout this idea, claiming that no Chinaman
would harbor him for a moment. for the
| Chinese of any camp who would harbor
him would barely escape annihilatlon at
the hands of the armed force now IN the
field. They are all cool, determined men,
who have known the murdered woman Tor
score of years, and who are bent ON
avenging her death. Some think he is
skulking in the willows that skirt the river
banks, others that he is slowed away in
some of the Chinese camps in the vicinity
of Nord The last idea that has been sug-
gested, and one that is rapidly gaining
ground, is that the murderer has COM
mitted suicide, became his own execu-
toner. The scene of the homicide has
been visited by many hundreds of people,
some coming many miles to pay their last
sad respects to the memory of the dead. A
Catholic priest was present Friday, and
during the afternoon repeated the rosary
over the body. The funeral will take place
at 1870 A. NJ to-day.
Joseph Billion is a wealthy man, and has
spared no expense in making his home
and surroundings all that could be desired.
For miles around the village of st. John
stretch his green grain fields, as far as the
eve can reach. His house is costly nestled
in a copse of evergreen trees. which almost
hide it from view. A graveled driveway
winds among the trees, green lawns and
beds of flowers, up to the doorstep of this
MAGNIFICENT COUNTRY RESIDENCE.
The architecture of the building, its fur
nishings, tapestry, elegant oil paintings,
well-stocked library, etc., are indications of
ease and comfort, wealth and refinement
Miss Annie Billou in an interview with
a reporter, said: We were just finishing
supper about halfpast 6. Billy Weaver
was Just rising from the table, when the
door behind him opened and shot was
| fired. He fell over at once into the corner.
jumped up and looked towards the door.
From where was ] could see the China
man after shooting Billy" He shot i'm
mediately at mamma, who fell over with
out word, groaning only once before she
died. The Chinaman then turned the gun
toward me and shot at Inc twice, one bull
let going through the window behind me,
and the other striking the wall. Before he
could fire again Billy closed the door
and showed the table against it. The Chi
naman then fired once through the door.
When the door into the kitchen was shut,
l ran out the door on to the porch to get
away The Chinaman heard me and
came out after me with the ak. He chased
me clear around the porch. He was right
behind me, and l thought every minute
would be my last. Finally l jumped
through the window into the front bed
room and ran through the hallway back to
the dining-room and locked the door after
me. The Chinaman then tried to beat
down the door from the kitchen with his
ak. While he was doing so Maud jumped
out of the window and ran to st. John to
tell Charley Papst. The Chinaman heard
her and fired three shots after her. Then
all grew quiet We thought the Chinaman
had gone, and Billy" told me to look out
and see, and I peeked out the door on to
the porch and at once there was flash al
most in my face. As the Chinaman fired
again the bullet struck within an inch of
my head in the door. casing. l shut the
door hurriedly. Then Billy" cried Here
comes Charley Papst.' The Chinaman
then ran away. A few minutes later the
men arrived from st. John.
REWARDS OFFERED.
The rewards offered for the capture of
the murderer amount to 81, 100, as follows ::
Joseph Billou, 1000; Sheriff of Colusa
county, $500; Chinese residents of Chico,
5000; Chinese Consul at San Francisco,
$500.
Mr.. Bilious reward, as advertised, reads
as follows:
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